 Yet, by some such fortuitous liquefaction was mankind taught to procure a body, at once, in a high degree, solid and transparent; which might admit the light of the sun, and exclude the violence of the wind ; which might extend the sight of the philosopher...  Chambers' Edinburgh Journal - Page 2301845Full view - About this book
 | Albert James Bernays - 1866 - 428 pages
...philosopher to new ranges of existence, and charm him, at one time with the unbounded extent of the material creation, and at another with the endless...and, what is yet of more importance, might supply the decay of nature and succor old age with subsidiary sight. Thus was the first artificer of glass employed,... | |
 | James Burton (schoolmaster.) - 1868 - 216 pages
...philosopher to new ranges of existence, and charm him at one time with the unbounded extent of the material creation, and at another with the^ endless subordination of animal life ; and what is of y et more importance might supply the decays of nature, and succour old age with subsidiary sight.... | |
 | Albert James Bernays - 1869 - 366 pages
...philosopher to new ranges of existence, and charm him, at one time with the unbounded extent of the material creation, and at another with the endless...and, what is yet of more importance, might supply the decay of nature and succour old age with subsidiary sight. Thus was the first artificer of glass employed,... | |
 | John Heywood (ltd.) - 1871 - 200 pages
...philosopher to new ranges of existence, and charm him, at one time, with the unbounded extent of the material creation, and at another with the endless...more importance, might supply the decays of nature with subsidiary sight. Thus was the first artificer in glass employed, though .without his own knowledge... | |
 | Alexander Nesbitt - 1873 - 168 pages
...philosopher to new ranges of existence, and charm him at one time with the unbounded extent of the material creation, and at another with the endless...and, what is yet of more importance, might supply the decay of nature and succour old age with subsidiary sight. Thus was the first artificer of glass employed,... | |
 | 1878 - 620 pages
...philosopher to new ranges of existence, and charm him at one time with the unbounded extent of the material creation, and at another with the endless...of animal life, and what is yet of more importance, to supply the decays of nature and succor old age with subsidiary sight. Thus was the first artificer... | |
 | Financial reform assoc - 1885 - 514 pages
...philosopher to new ranges of existence, and charm him at one time with the unbounded extent of tbe material creation, and at another with the endless...and, what is yet of more importance, might supply the decay of nature and succour old age with subsidiary sight. Thus was the first artificer in glass employed,... | |
 | 1893 - 794 pages
...philosopher to new ranges of existence, and charm him at one time with the unbounded extent of the material creation, and at another with the endless...and, what is yet of more importance, might supply the decay of nature and succour old age with subsidiary sight. Thus was the first artificer of glass employed,... | |
 | Berkshire Historical and Scientific Society (Pittsfield, Mass.) - 1894 - 918 pages
...the unbounded extent of the material creation, and at another, with the endless subordination of the animal life, and, what is yet of more importance, might supply the decay of nature, and succor old age with subsidiary light. Thus was the first artificer of glass employed,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin Biser - 1899 - 192 pages
...philosopher to new ranges of existence, and charm him at one time with the unbounded extent of the material creation, and at another with the endless...and what is yet of more importance might supply the decay of and succor old age with subsidiary sight. Thus was the first artificer of glass employed,... | |
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